The Washington Post looks at Seth and Complete Peanuts

The Washington Post gives a well due look at Seth and his efforts at bringing The Complete Peanuts together. He has done great things in establishing a usable, functional look to the series, and is now facing with the difficulties introduced with volume 26, which includes a lot of material in formats that were not what this series was designed for (and I expect he is handling them admirably; I very much look forward to seeing the final layout.)
But, when the Post says Seth:
delved into the forthcoming volume by gathering Schulz ephemera, including his advertising art and editorial illustration
that is a misattribution. The gathering of the material was years in the planning and involved months of effort and expense by Derrick Bang, Timothy Chow, and myself. I’m proud of our efforts and results. There’s some cool stuff in here, including some we didn’t even know to look for when we started the process.
(I assume that this was simply the Post taking a couple of true statements from/about Seth and misconstruing them. One gets to see the sloppiness of the mainstream media, even a respectable outlet like the Post, when they write about something one is involved in.)
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